Mango Ginger & Garlic Pickle
Mango Ginger & Garlic pickle is not only extra delicious but also absolutely versatile. It can be combined with roti, rice and/or bread; can be added in salad, marination or in stuffing; and can be replaced with a curry!
This is my family’s all time favourite recipe of a mango pickle. I make different variety of pickles every year and hardly any pickle gets repeated from the previous year. But this is ONE and ONLY pickle that I need to assure that it is available throughout the year, year after year!
Mango Pickle flavoured with Ginger and Garlic
Mango pickle that is flavoured with ginger and garlic is my top choice over all the other types of pickles. It is absolutely delicious and it definitely a treat for your taste buds. This mango pickle is spicy, tangy, garlicy and hot ! You want to eat it as an accompaniment, replace it with a curry, enjoy it with rice or paratha or stuff it in parathas … let your imagination grow wild and combine it with anything! It will definitely enhance the taste of whatever it has been combined with. It is an all purpose pickle !So without further delay, let us begin with the recipe of Mango Ginger and Garlic Pickle !
Equipment
- standard measuring cups and spoons
Ingredients
- 1 cup peeled and chopped raw mangoes
- 1 cup peeled and grated mango
- 3/4 cup pieces of ginger
- 1/2 cup garlic cloves peeled
- 1½ cup methi masala for achar fenugreek seeds powder based achar masala
- salt to taste only if required
- 3 tsp Kashmiri red chilli powder or any mild variety of chilli powder Use only if required
- 300-500 ml refined oil regular cooking oil
Instructions
- Make coarse paste of garlic. You may also leave some cloves aside to add in the pickle. Take around 50 ml oil in a thick pan. Fry garlic paste in the oil on low flame till the raw smell of it disappears.
- Do the same process with ginger. Let them cool down completely.
- Heat up the remaining oil till smoking point and then leave it aside to cool down completely. In a mixing bowl, add chopped as well as grated mangoes and methi masala to it and combine well.
- Add the fried and cooled pastes of ginger and garlic.
- If you want, you can take more amount of methi masala than mentioned above. Taste to see if you need to add chilli powder and salt. Add if needed.
- Add the oil that was heated and cooled to this achar. Cover and keep aside on the counter for 3 days. Stir twice a day..
- The spices and fenugreek will absorb oil and puff. Access Peelwill be released on the surface of achar. After 3 days, if you find not much oil in achar, you may heat up more oil and add once it cools down. Using more or less oil in achar is up to you. I prefer to add more oil as I use the oil from achar in handvo and muthiya for better flavour. Fill up oil in clean and stirrilized glass jar.
Notes
- Storing: In India, my mother in -law stores this achar on the counter and it lasts for 4-6 months. I store it in fridge as I leave in a country where the weather is totally different from India. So I do not take risk.
- Choice of a jar: use a glass jar with a plastic lid. If the lid is made of metal, cover it up with plastic or butter paper to avoid it’s contact with achar. Always use the jar that is big enough to leave 1/4 space free for the methi seeds to puff. If the free space inside the bottle is not enough, sometimes the oil tends to overflow after a few days.
- Type of mango to use: Usually Rajapuri mango is used for achar in India. But in my country that mango is not available. So I use the one that grows in my yard. I use them while they are still small and their seeds are tender enough to remove easily.
- Type of achar masalo: there are different types of achar spice mix available in the market such as Punjabi achar mix, sweet achar mix, khatta achar mix, mustard based achar mix and so on. But to enjoy the authentic flavour of this achar, use fenugreek based achar masala that has only crushed fenugreek seeds, salt, chilli powder and asafoetida in it. Other ingredients like sauf(fennel) and all do not go well with this type of achar. I always buy Ramdev or Shankar brand. Sometimes I make it at home. I will share that recipe with you some day.
